Sure-Fit Designs Bodice Blueprint

After three tries, each one getting me closer, here is what I THINK is my bodice sloper, from which I anticipate many well-fitting and beautifully sewn garments will start. Drumroll, please:

I followed the Sure-Fit Designs dress kit body blueprint instructions and it was a good fit! Many alterations I have had to make to commercial patterns were dealt with by using Sure-Fit-Designs. I love how SFD guides you in making a pattern based on your own unique body. Here is a list do alterations I used to do but are what AUTOMATICALLY handled with SFD:

Upper torso petite adjustment

Large upper arm

Full bust alteration--that's right, folks. NO MORE FBA!!!!!!!

widen waist

Widen hip

Not having to wrestle with all those alterations allowed me to focus on refining the fit and I made these adjustments over the three tries:

Forward shoulder

Narrow chest and back (armcrease-to-armcrease measurement)

Raised armscye

I'm tired of sewing muslins and want to get started on CLOTHES because I need some! I'm going to make the swingy top in the SFD dress kit. This involves making the top pattern from my blueprint so I'll be making another pattern before I actually get to sew the top but because I'm using the SFD sloper it SHOULD fit so it will be worth it.

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